Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says he has taken a 20 per cent pay cut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ambrosie came under heavy fire earlier this week for unilaterally imposing a 20 per cent...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have been approved to resume full team workouts at their training centre. The MLS team got the green light from provincial health authorities and the league. The Im...

MADRID - International viewership for Spanish soccer games increased by nearly 50% after they returned from the break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the league said Thursday. Figures for the firs...

PARIS - As Usain Bolt set the world ablaze, making athletics the hottest ticket at the Olympic Games, the sport was also being eaten from within. That grim picture has emerged from a corruption trial ...

OTTAWA - A realigning of standards on who can compete in Paralympic wheelchair basketball has forced Canadian veteran David Eng off the national team. Canada's flagbearer at the 2016 Summer Paralympic...

CALGARY - Get Smart and Stevie Knicks are lounging in the penthouse pasture. Blackstone After Party is having sex. Rodeo announcers constantly refer to bucking stock as athletes and poi...

TORONTO - Raptors Uprising GC, unbeaten in regular-season play, kept rolling Wednesday by thumping Blazer5 Gaming and Lakers Gaming in the NBA 2K League's Tipoff esports tournament. Toronto joins seve...

Taylor Pendrith isn't used to his weekly nasal swabbing just yet, but he's getting there. Pendrith and his peers on the Korn Ferry Tour get tested for COVID-19 at the start of every week as part of th...

TORONTO - Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu says she supports the United States Tennis Association's decision to hold this year's U.S. Open this summer despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic....

Local pickleball players have shown their passion for the fast-growing sport by raising just over $1 million for their "Raise the Roof' campaign in just over three weeks.The project would put a roof o...